At the risk of being totally off-topic, but hey, there must be more than one sysadmin in the audience using Postfix as an MTA...

I have a regex that looks for antivirus spew in order to reject it. Someone had collected a large list of subject headers received from antivirus malware and posted it to the Postfix mailing list. Rather than bog down my server with a check against each subject, I used Perl to build one regex to match them all (and in the darkness bind them :)

If your postfix installation was compiled with the pcre library, you can use the following:

Note: the above is senstitive to spaces. Make sure you "download code" rather than a simple cut'n'paste.

I've put the RE in a <readmore>, something I never do as a rule in a reply, but it occurs to me that if for people who have long line code wrapping turned off it will make the page rather... wide.

In any case, it's been weeks since we have been bothered by the antics of antivirus software.

Man, you should have used the /x switch, grinder! </troll> </lame-slashdot-emulation>

Can someone please tell me how to patch my Linux box?

Abigail

Thanks -- I am almost set up now. My only hope now lies with Mono (ugh, now there is a disease for you) and VB.NET so I can run the more modern viruses.